No survey on house sale

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Our buyers are yet to commission a survey on our house. We have received a draft contract and had some enquiries through. Is it likely that they will not do one now? I don't know the time frames. Thanks

Not everyone gets a survey. The people who bought our last house didn’t and neither did we on the house we upgraded to.

If they are getting a mortgage they will need to get a valuation from the Lender but may not want to pay extra for a full survey. People not getting a mortgage may not even bother with the most basic valuation survey.

You could ask the EA to ask them if they plan to get a survey?

@Twiglets1 yes I thought that could be the case. I just wondered if it had got to the enquiries part then had they missed the opportunity for a survey. I'm not desperate to talk to our EA as I don't think they've done a good job so far and I don't trust them not to cock it up! Thanks for your reply!

If you don’t want to involve the EA then ask your conveyancer to request an update from theirs. How long since you accepted their offer? Receiving a draft contract can happen relatively early in the process and isn’t necessarily indicative that they won’t commission a survey. Technically they could ask for a survey the day before you had provisionally agreed to exchange and delay it, there’s no “missing the opportunity” for the survey in that sense. Have they received their mortgage offer yet? Some buyers opt to wait to commission the survey until they have that in place on the basis that they don’t want to have paid for a survey only to then find out that their lender won’t lend anything close to what they’ve offered and they’ll have to pull out.

They could still request a survey I’m afraid (though hopefully they won’t). Some people do just leave it late in the process.

My buyer waited until quite late into the process to get a survey and then they spent five weeks thinking about the report before they even started the conversation about further contractors looking at stuff.

Sorry, posted too soon. Basically most of the conveyancing was done before they got a survey! Being at enquiries doesn't mean they aren't going to get a survey.